Privateer vs Null - What's the difference?
privateer | null |
(nautical) A privately owned warship that had official sanction to attack enemy ships and take possession of their cargo.
An officer or any other member of the crew of such a ship.
* Macaulay
(motor racing) A private individual entrant into a race or competition who does not have the backing of a large, professional team.
To function under official sanction permitting attacks on enemy shipping and seizing ship and cargo; to engage in government-sponsored piracy.
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As nouns the difference between privateer and null
is that privateer is (nautical) a privately owned warship that had official sanction to attack enemy ships and take possession of their cargo while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb privateer
is to function under official sanction permitting attacks on enemy shipping and seizing ship and cargo; to engage in government-sponsored piracy.privateer
English
Noun
(wikipedia privateer) (en noun)- Kidd soon threw off the character of a privateer and became a pirate.
See also
* (motor racing) works teamVerb
(en verb)See also
* letter of marquenull
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.